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A Dark Inheritance : Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica / Brooke N. Newman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newman, Brooke N., author.
- Series:
- Yale scholarship online.
- Yale scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plantation life--Jamaica--History.
- Plantation life.
- Slavery--Jamaica--History.
- Slavery.
- Marginality, Social--Jamaica--History.
- Marginality, Social.
- Inheritance and succession--Jamaica--History.
- Inheritance and succession.
- Jamaica--Race relations.
- Jamaica.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- A major reassessment of the development of race and subjecthood in the British Atlantic Focusing on Jamaica, Britain's most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, Brooke Newman explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges associated with British subject status. Weaving together a diverse range of sources, she shows how colonial racial ideologies rooted in fictions of blood ancestry at once justified permanent, hereditary slavery for Africans and barred members of certain marginalized groups from laying claim to British liberties on the basis of hereditary status.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One. Blood, Sovereignty, and the Law
- Chapter 1. The Birthright of Freeborn Subjects
- Chapter. 2 Blood of the Father
- Chapter 3. Whiteness and Hereditary Blood Status
- Part two. Blood Mixture, Abolition, and Empire
- Chapter 4. Blood Ties in the Colonial Sexual Economy
- Chapter 5. Enslaved Women and British Comic Culture
- Chapter 6. Inheritable Blood and the Imperial Body Politic
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 0-300-24097-X
- 978-0-300-24097-9
- OCLC:
- 1047729255
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